The Trans Pacific Partnership really is the opportunity to renegotiate Nafta in the sense of not actually having to open the agreement. Some of the controversy that always surrounded Nafta has continued and now we see it reemerging in the TPP context.

A lot of developing countries are going to benefit around the [Trans-Pacific Partnership], it depends, at the end of the day, what the large developed countries are prepared to do in certain sensitive areas.

The WTO, since it launched the current round of trade negotiations in 2001, has had a series of failed ministerial meetings and it’s become clear that making progress on achieving an outcome on trade is becoming increasingly difficult in the WTO. The current set of agreements are probably, in a way, the easiest and least ambitious, although they will produce important gains.

Taiwan, as an APEC member, should be allowed to join the TPP 'in a formal sense' because the 21 APEC member nations are all eligible for TPP membership if they are able to meet the high standards that are being negotiated in the agreement.

The bilateral relationship at least with Mexico has been dominated by drugs and violence. I think there is going to be a concerted effort here to refocus attention on the depth and size of the economic relationship.

[Roberto Azevêdo] knows how the system works, how to get a deal done. But he has been saddled by the positions that he has had to take as Brazil’s ambassador. During the Doha round Brazil has not always been the most constructive contributor.

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